yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

  • woodgen@lemm.ee
    3·
    13 minutes ago

    Arch.

    Because of pacman. Building and writing packages is simple and dependencies are slim. Also packages are recent. And most likely “there is an AUR package for that”. Also stack transitions arrive early, like pipewire.

    Also let’s not forget Arch Wiki, i bet you have read it as a non Arch user.

    I administer Arch on 8 machines including gaming rigs, home server, web server, kids laptop, wifes gaming desktop, audio workstation and machine learning rig and a bunch of dev laptops. I also use ArchARM on RPi for some home automation.

    Never considered switching since I switched from Ubuntu over 15 years ago.

    I do have experience with several other rpm and apt based distros.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    26 minutes ago

    I’ve been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it’s been amazing. I’m sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I’ve had.

    And it’s perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It’s super impressive actually.

    And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Arch. I need the AUR for certain applications, and the high degree of customizability and opportunity for learning appeal to me as a relatively new-ish Linux user (going on a few years now, most of that time having been on Arch).

  • IAmHeroForFun@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    btw i use Arch, i use it because i found lot less effort it takes to do anything and it’s stable, i do think there is some bug with QTcreator, gotta see it’s os issue or QT issue.

  • callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I use NixOS for my desktop because I hate myself you can configure everything without needing to edit a bunch of different config files that use different configuration languages.

    I use Arch btw for my Minecraft server because I am crazy.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      I loved EndeavourOS, but I’m just not sure bleeding edge is for me. Mostly because I will forget to update for a week, and suddenly there are 500 updates, all with interconnected dependencies and pacman is just like “wtf dude?”

      I’m not sure I really gained any benefit from that over using a more stable release. I switched to Bazzite a few months back, and it’s been amazing. Immutable is very interesting, and it’s made for the most stable PC I’ve ever owned.

      Highly recommend Bazzite for gamers (or I guess it’s good for multimedia too), or if not, one of the other Fedora-based immutable distros.

  • Ebahn13@pawb.social
    4·
    4 hours ago

    I use Bazzite so that it matches with my Steam Deck since SteamOS still isn’t an actual distro to play with yet…

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Mint for my desktop system. It just does exactly what I want it to, has good compatibility with software and Cinnamon is my DE of choice.

    NixOS for my server, because being able to use one config repo and format for everything is so nice.

  • Anarchistcowboy@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    I use Debian on my server and Arch on my gaming PC and laptop. Both distros offer minimal installs so I can just add the packages I need and avoid the ones I don’t. Debian offers a nice stable base for running my services with minimal downtime and Arch has the most up to date packages for all the cutting edge features I want on desktop.

  • chrand@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    5 hours ago

    Fedora with GNOME.

    I’ve been using it for over than 10 years in my main computer.

    It simply works, it’s nice, fresh packages, stable, GNOME is productivity champion (at least I know all the shortcuts, and how to tweak it to my daily use). I also know how to build and manipulate RPM packages, so it’s pretty convenient.

    • fxdave@lemmy.ml
      1·
      44 minutes ago

      afaik, fedora is the testing distro for RHEL. I also felt this way, when a new gnome version released much earlier than for Arch and it had an obvious bug that could be catched with little testing.

      And many issues I found in Fedora’s bug tracker was auto closed by the new release. Which is quite frequent. Reviewing the bugs is not that frequent.

      • chrand@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Mostly for fun/learning and to tweak some Fedora packages to my needs. I keep my own RPM repository.

  • Lotteriemeister@feddit.org
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Tuxedo OS. Before that, I was very happy with Fedora, and then I got a tuxedo laptop and tried their distro. Now, I keep using that because I started to enjoy KDE, and I really like their hardware support and how they test and maintain the distro.

  • lancalot@discuss.onlineEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    What distro do you use

    I daily drive secureblue.

    and why?

    Long story short; I love me some security. Unfortunately, My device is far from ideal for running Qubes OS. From within the remaining options, secureblue comes out on top for me.